1. Don’t Look Now - Top 20 short story to film adaptations

While du Maurier famously disliked Hitchcock’s adaptations of The Birds and
Jamaica Inn, she had little complaint when Nicolas Roeg came round to making
Don’t Look Now. The short story, about an English couple in Venice after the
death of their young daughter, began life in a 1971 collection of short
stories by du Maurier, Not After Midnight. Roeg’s adaptation remained
faithful to du Maurier’s characters, and remains particularly famous for its
love scene and extreme opening and conclusion.